Monthly Archives: March 2010

By Jonathan @jonathanlykes 12:00 am March 31, 2010 Today I heard an advertisement on a Chicago radio station. It started off with a heavy bass rhythm in the background, and continued into a full beat that sounded oddly familiar—like it was the new Lil Wayne track of the week. (It seem like he comes out […]

By edward 8:25 am March 30, 2010 “They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these […]

By Summer M. 9:00 am March 29, 2010 Though I am ostensibly a U.S. Citizen (some days it feels tenuous as hell), I also have a Crunchy Nation green card, which means my Twitter feed was full of earth mother goddesses, headwraps, and the like drooling over Erykah Badu’s new video for “Window Seat,” the […]

By Leigh 12:49 am March 29, 2010 Written by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward | Season 2, Ep. 5 Anyone But Me is a critically acclaimed web series about New York city teens coming of age in the 21st century. The series follows the ethnically diverse cast as they explore for their own identity […]

By Fallon 4:57 pm March 26, 2010 In 1964 at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer said, “All my life I’ve been sick and tired . . . Now, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Even though these words were distinctively about Southern racism, I find myself unconsciously gravitating […]

By Dallas @smarteys 12:04 pm March 26, 2010 When my roommate and I got our census packet in the mail a few weeks ago, we immediately burst into laughter. Now, let’s make something clear; the Census is very important and I think everyone should do it. Census data influences the allocation of much needed financial […]

By anonymous 2:48 am March 26, 2010 I live with four people. Three of them are white and one is Asian, at least that’s what I would normally write on a form if asked. And if things were fair and balanced with this year’s Census, I would say one is Italian, one is Irish, one […]

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